Polygon Collider 2D affecting OnMouseEnter script

I've encountered a tricksy problem that I've isolated the source but I'm not sure what to do about it.

I have icons for locations in my game that when the player hovers over those icons with the mouse they get bigger and display information. That's all been working perfectly well.

I recently added a new layer which is basically the copy of the terrain shape but as a collider for another game aspect. Now, the OnMouseEnter script isn't functioning in the areas where the collider is present. If i switch the collider off, the script works again. Any clues as to why this is happening?

Code (CSharp):

1.     public void OnMouseEnter()
2.     {
3.        
4.  
5.             transform.localScale += new Vector3(0.1f, 0.1f, 0f);
6.             transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0f, 0.3f, 0f);
7.             string objectName = gameObject.name;
8.             cityCountryText.text = (Find_id(objectName).name);
9.             cityText.text = (Find_id(objectName).country);
10.             cityAreaText.text = "• Area: " + (Find_id(objectName).area); // the corresponding value in the collumn c.name on the same row as Havana
11.             cityPopText.text = "• Population: " + cityPop;
12.             cityDensityText.text = "• Density: " + (Find_id(objectName).density);
13.             cityPrepText.text = "• Preparedness: " + (Find_id(objectName).prep) + "%";
14.             totalDeathslocal.text = "• Local Deaths: " + cityTotalDeaths;
15.        
16.     }

 

Is this something to do with the "Is Trigger" option? I tried deselecting it on a couple of my icons and it works-ish. Mouse Over returns but the scaling/positioning on the MouseOver goes all funky.

 

Check the docs here:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseEnter.html

In regards to your second post above, there is a blurb in the docs about setting a physics setting regarding queryingTriggers.

Oh, and +1 for using Gollum references, tricksy little collider messages. It confuses us it does, yes!

 

thank you, my precious! will take a looksy!